05.09.2013, 15:46, "Kurt Pattyn" <[email protected]>: >> From: Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Development] A bug or not a bug, that's the question >> Date: 26 Aug 2013 17:16:19 GMT+02:00 >> To: [email protected] >> On segunda-feira, 26 de agosto de 2013 13:53:38, Kurt Pattyn wrote: >> We should remove the check. It was added because GLib made the mistake of >> forbidding them, and the mistake was imported into D-Bus, which led to >> remote >> DoS attacks in KDE applications that sent remote text via D-Bus >> (konversation >> sent the text sent by people from IRC). >> GLib was fixed in version 2.36 and D-Bus was fixed in 1.6.10. Since 1.6.10 >> is >> pretty new, we need to keep a version check in QtDBus. > > Is it OK then to remove the check in QUtf8Codec, or do we need a check on the > DBus version (which is not relevant for other platforms than Linux), and > depending on the version include/exclude the check? >
As for "is not relevant for other platforms than Linux", DBus successfully runs on OS X and IIRC can be used on Windows as well. -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
